{"id":311814,"date":"2021-02-04T21:11:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T20:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=311814"},"modified":"2021-02-04T21:13:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T20:13:55","slug":"appointment-of-igp-buhari-told-to-withdraw-extension-of-adamus-tenure-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=311814","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of IGP: Buhari told to withdraw extension of Adamu\u2019s tenure immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw the extension<\/strong> of Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu\u2019s tenure.<br \/>\nThe human rights lawyer noted that the President\u2019s decision to retain Adamu in the position is illegal.<br \/>\nPresident Buhari on Thursday extended the tenure of Adamu for three months.<br \/>\nThe Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi made this known while briefing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<br \/>\nDingyadi said that Buhari\u2019s decision to retain the IGP for another three months was to properly select the new helmsman.<br \/>\nBut appearing on Channels Television on Thursday evening, Ozekhome said that in \u201cthe eye of the law, there is no Inspector-General of Police.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat we have there is a retired Inspector-General of Police illegally occupying the office \u2013<br \/>\n\u201cMr President sir, withdraw the appointment of Mr. Adamu. Call your Police Council and appoint from one of the serving AIGs.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the eye of the law, Adamu is a retired police officer\u2026you\u2019re denying other members of the Nigeria Police Force who are aspiring to go up to become the Inspector-General.<br \/>\n\u201cThe President was wrong\u2026 it is illegal, unconstitutional, unconscionable, whimsical\u2026 Adamu has done his best for the country.\u201d<br \/>\nAppointment of IGP: Buhari told to withdraw extension of Adamu\u2019s tenure immediately<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw the extension of Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu\u2019s tenure. The human rights lawyer noted that the President\u2019s decision to retain Adamu in the position is illegal. President Buhari on Thursday extended the tenure of Adamu for three months. The Minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,41,4477],"class_list":["post-311814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-buhari","tag-igp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/311815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}